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1941Mario Corso, Italian footballer and coach (died 2020)[†]
Mario Corso was an Italian football player and coach. A famed and dynamic left winger, he was regarded as one of the greatest Italian players in his position, earning the nicknames "Mandrake" and "God's Left Foot", due to his skills, free kick technique and crossing ability.
1941Ludwig Müller, German footballer (died 2021)[†]
Ludwig 'Luggi' Müller was a German professional footballer who played as a defender.
1941World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran.[†]
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their mutual enemy, Nazi Germany, which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw, while the Soviet Union delayed until May, initially citing "threats to Soviet security", followed by the Iran crisis of 1946.
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Bason, J, and 6 killed; 9 hurt, auto-bus crash; C Ramsey, bus driver, held, Waldwick
BERLIN, Aug. 24 -- While Prime Minister Winston Churchill was still speaking to the world by radio tonight the Germans issued a special communique from Adolf Hitler's Field Headquarters in which they asserted that twenty-five merchant vessels, totaling 148,000 tons, had been sunk by U-boats and surface craft, twenty-one of them from a heavily guarded enemy convoy en route from the British Isles to Gibraltar.
Named by Churchill in pledge to aid nations dominated by Hitler, radio s; text
Eccles warns pub installment trade regulation is subject to change; explains need for curbs; urges debt reduction; statement text
Roosevelt signs order allowing foreign officers and crews employment on U S ships; move opens way for Brit use of seized ships
Navy Dept takes possession; pickets withdrawn; union votes to end strike; Korndorff statement; text; police guard illus
assassins identified; 3 more arrested
Germany claims USSR heckles radio news broadcasts; plans counter measures
Hershey announces re-employment program for released selectees; orders bds to see that men get back old jobs
Germans claim U-boats and surface craft sunk 21 merchant ships and 3 escort ships from Brit convoy en route from Eng to Gibraltar; claims only 8 ships escaped into Portugese waters: 13 ships from Brit convoy arrive, Lisbon; crew believes 9 ships and destroyer were sunk off Spanish coast; says attack lasted 2 mins